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LISHED 大英六月六號 禮拜六 中華民國辛未年四月十一日

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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1931,

WAR GRAVES IN THE EAST:

An Untold Story of Kut.

OASES IN DESERT.

Major-General Sir Fabian Ware, Permanent Vice-Chairman of the Imperial War Graves Commission, recently arrived in England on his return from India, where, at the invitation of the Indian Govern- ment, he attended the unveiling of the Delhi War Memorial. He visit ed cemeteries in various parts of India, and went back through Irak for the purpose of visiting ceme teries there also. After France and Flanders, Irak was the area where the casualties SZE the War were highest.

In a statement to representatives of the Press, Sir Fabian said that while in India he went to the North West Frontier, and even in advanced positions found the graves proudly and carefully tended. "If you want to get rid of the pessimism which one finds at the centre of the Em- pire," Sir Fabian Ware continued, you should go out and see the soldiers and civilian officials who Are maintaining the security of the frontier. It is one of the most moving bits of work that I have seen since I was a young man. You feel that the British ideals of

justice and courage, and the other ideals to which we older people-were brought up, are still real things.

"The way in which these men are carrying out their work is beyond all praise. One has to remember that the civilian officials go about there carrying their lives in their hands, never knowing whether they may be shot down. They are carry Ing on

work with superb courage. It is one of, the most en- couraging things I have seen. You feel that as long as that sort of thing le being done by British people the British Empire Is all right. One comes back with a cer tain feeling of shame that one does not say "Thank you.' more often to them."

their

Admirably Cared For.

All the British War "graves in India which Sir Fabian sa ware, he said, admirably cared for. The Indian War Memorial Arch at New Delhi he described as superb.

"Nover Been So Proud.” In desert cemeteries, Sir Fabian Ware explained incidentally, an at- tempt was made by planting palm- trees to give an idea of an oasis in the desert. The people in Bagdad, he continued, had heard that there were to be British visitors to the cemetery, and by the time the party reached it rows of Arabs were sit ting outside.

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"I have seen the head of a State," Sir Fabian Ware said, "paying re- verence to the dead, I have never felt that the British Empire was being so judged by the attitude taken towards the dead as it waG being judged by these Arabs. They sat talking the whole time we were in the cemetery very respectfully, and their whole attitude was very

Permanent Maintenance. The Commission, Sir Fabian said, received * number of inquiries about these distant graves, and a surprising humber of visits had been made to them, though, of course, nat comparable to those made to graves in France and Bel- gium. There were arrangements for supplying photographs of head- stones at a cheap rate, and there was a considerable demand for them. As regards the permanent maintenance of the graves, Sir Fabian pointed out that an endow- ment fund was being built up, so that there need be no anxiety. The Dominions, he said, had paid up the

whole of their contributions to the fund.

The number of graves which are respectful as we came out. I have being dealt with throughout the never been so proud. We felt that world is over 700,000. Colonel these people, had before them some-Hughes in Cairo has charge of the thing which was best in our British work in the Near East with another Ideas."

representative, Captain Peck, act- ing in Irak. Every single head- Every single drawing for thestone that has been put up, Sir cemetery, Sir Fabian said, was sent Ware mid, has meant communica- from England; the contract was

tlon with a man's next of kin. placed from here, and the work was

There is, therefore, a direct per- controlled by a local representative, sonal touch in the relations between who was still out there.

the department and those cerned..

The Bagdad cemetery is the only place where to any departure from that plan of equal treatment which consists in marking each grave by the same kind of headstone. This is due to the fact that it is the only

the kind in which a cemetery of general is buried. General Maude lies there in a grave in the centre of the ground, and over it has been erected a special monument which has something of the appearance of a shrine. After General Maude'a death the question arose whether his remains should be brought home for burial in St. Paul's Cathedral It was, however, decided that they should be left to rest in the East, and to meet the particular case the Commission made an exception to the rule of uniform treatment.

An Untold Story. The British and Indian prisoners who were taken at the surrender of Kut afterwards went through great sufferings. After the War the re mains of about 500 of those who dled and had been traced were quietly brought to Bagdad and buried with their comrades. This story, Sir Fabian said, had never yet been told....... Mṛ, Kipling was con- sidering a special inscription to be placed over the plot where the men were buried.

In Irak the death roll of the War In Irak a problem of material has reached Д total of 60,000. Sirarisen which is engaging the atten Fabian visited cemeteries at Baara, tion of the Commission. There where there are 2,589 graves; have been some signs of the cor- Amara, with 4,697; Kut, with 417; rösion of headstones, and experi and Bagdad, with 5,749. Over ments are being made to find the 40,000 men have no known grave, most suitable material to withstand and are commemorated by a large the stress of desert conditions. memorial at Basra.

Sir Fabian went on to Beirut,,

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LAND OF GOLD.

con-

SIR J. KIRWAN HAS NO FEARS

FOR AUSTRALIA.

Sir John Kirwan, President of the Legislative Council of West- ern Australia, has forecast a rapid recovery by Australia from her financial troubles.

Speaking to Fellows of the Royal Empire Society in London, he said that no one with a true knowledge of the country and people could doubt that she would get over the existing crisis with credit.

To him, the only question was how long it would" take. The continent had won-1 derful recuperative powers, and he believed that the process of recovery would be much quicker than most people expected.

Australia was so rich in na- tural wealth that there need be no fear about her future. Her capital was at least. five times greater than the sum of her overseas indebtedness, The financial crisis would put an end to Government and private ex- travagances, teach Governments and private citizens to live with- in their means and establish pub- lic and private finance on a sound basis.

The present low prices in Aus- tralia and the high rate of ex- change affords a golden oppor- tunity for investment by those who could afford to wait a little time for the reward of handsome, profits.

In Bagdad Sir Fabian was re-stopping at Damascus. Very few ceived in audience by King Feisal, people, he said, kpcw that there was who expressed the greatest latereat a British War cemetery at DamaS- One industry to which capital- in the War cemeteries, and has him cus. There was, however, a veryists should readily turn Was self made arrangements for water beautiful one, in which there were gold-mining in which there had to be supplied to the Bagdad Ceme-597 graves, a large proportion of been a revival. In Western tery. King Feisal is stated to have which were these of Australian and Australla there was an area

It ahown a deep sense of the debt New Zealand soldiers.

was that might be described almost which his kingdom owed for its

as a continent of gold. prosperity to the men who had sacrificed their lives,

similar to the cemetery at Kut in being well planted with trees. At Beirut was also the same kind of cemetery, with trees and flowers and $59 graves.

Sir, Fabian said that one of the things which most impressed him was his visit to Kut, in the attempt to recover which such heavy casual | Hes were incurred. He travelled on the Tigris in a launch, and landed, the horticultural work and the

Sir Fabian went through Pale- stine where, he said, he was much struck by the great improvement in

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BALLOON RECORD.

OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION OF ATTITUDE.

Berne, Yesterday. | he said, at an ordinary Arab town, growth of trees and shrubs. At

that It is officially confirmed of not unpicturesque mud-brick Haifa there

graves, Professor Picard's balloon reached houses. As he was walking through Ramich 3,686, Jerusalem 2,584 a height of 15,781 metres.-Reuter. the streets his eye was suddenly Beersheba 1,289, Gaza 8,177, and [The Belgian scientist Professor caught by two stone pillars and nice | Deir el-Belah 669. That on the Picard and a companion ascended green-painted railings. When be Mount of Olives was a cemetery to from the Austrian Tyrol on May approached the pillars a little palm-which particular, attention" had been 27 In a sealed gondola attached to grove disclosed itself, and under the devoted, and it was one of the most ja balloon, with the object of reach- palmis the white beadstones of impressive monuments at Jerusalem. ing the upper atmosphere ten milea soldiers' graves, together with the Beersheba was the ons cemetery (approximately 16,000 metres) cross of sacrifice and the stone of where the flowers and shrubs were from the earth. Fears were · felt remembrance-just the same monu-not satisfactory. There had been for their safety, but they were menta as are to be acen in any cema- | diffeultles from drought and found the following day on tery in France or Flanders.

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